Новости за 21.02.2019

The 2020 race to be US president heated up this week with the entrance of Senator Bernie Sanders, who raked in $6 million in donations in 24 hours, prompting a war of words and a fundraising battle with Donald Trump.
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French President Emmanuel Macron’s vow to outlaw “anti-Zionism” as racism has less to do with actually fighting hate crimes and more to do with courting votes, according to French commenters.
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Amid a wider protest in Catalonia on Thursday, a metro station in Barcelona became the scene of intensive confrontation between pro-independence activists and Spanish police.
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Ahead of critical trade talks with China, US President Donald Trump is demanding America forge ahead in the tech race by jumping straight to sixth-generation mobile communications. Only problem? It doesn’t exist.
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As Special Counsel Robert Mueller prepares to issue his long-awaited and likely flaccid ‘Russiagate’ report, Democrats and their supporters in the media have been riding a rollercoaster of emotions, not all of them pretty.
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At a press conference where he officially announced his retirement on Thursday, UFC legend Georges St-Pierre said that both he and Khabib Nurmagomedov had been keen on facing one another before the UFC nixed the idea.
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A Kazakhstan betting company has bizarrely opened an odds market on whether gorgeous Kazakh world champion boxer Firuza Sharipova will call out Russian President Vladimir Putin for a fight or pose for adult magazine Playboy.
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The two biggest male stars of the FIS Nordic Ski Championships, which kicked off in Seefeld, Austria today, Sergei Ustiugov of Russia and Johannes Klaebo of Norway, didn't waste any time cranking their rivalry to the next level.
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It’s bad enough when your phone or laptop is having technical difficulties, but that headache has now extended to footwear, after owners of Nike’s new smart sneakers have reported shoe malfunctions following an Android update.
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Starting Thursday evening, Venezuela is closing its border with Brazil, President Nicolas Maduro has announced. He added the same measure may apply to the border with Colombia, though he does not want to order it.
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A Wisconsin high school has come under fire for an award ceremony held last year, where 'Big Booty' and 'Big Boobie' prizes were handed to cheerleaders during an event attended by parents and coaches.
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A species of giant tortoise thought to have gone extinct over a century ago was found on the Galapagos island of Fernandina, stunning researchers and bringing hope to conservationists.
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SpaceX’s new launch vehicle system, called Starship, will replace its current rockets, and may be the first craft to bring humans to Mars. The high tech ship has one potential weakness, however: bird poop.
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The founder of Chinese tech giant Huawei has thanked the Trump administration for helping him to “promote” 5G technology in advance of an expected ban on the company operating in the US over concerns about “national security.”
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US Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is being accused of “flip-flopping” on her Syria stance and “caving” to mainstream media pressure after a combative interview on The View.
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Former two-weight UFC world champion Georges St-Pierre has called time on one of the most successful careers in the history of the sport, as he announced his retirement at a press conference in Montreal on Thursday.
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The Earth’s atmosphere is much bigger than previously thought, extending far beyond the Moon, a team of scientists have revealed. The amazing discovery was made thanks to data that has been sitting unexamined for over 20 years.
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Berlin must not bow to any other countries’ “dictation” on its energy policy, the head of a German trade lobby in Russia has said, as he slammed the politicization of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.
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Eschewing the usual artwork and cigars, Pakistani senators gave visiting Saudi dignitary Mohammad bin Salman a gift from the heart: an embossed golden Heckler & Koch MP5.
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One of China’s biggest ports has put restrictions on shipments of coal from Australia, its top supplier of anthracite, casting a shadow upon Australia’s second largest export earner.
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A statue that pays tribute to an iconic image of a US sailor kissing a nurse at the end of WWII was spray-painted with a ‘Me Too’ hashtag – but was this acceptable activism, or the work of out-out-touch vandals?
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Washington’s pressure campaign against Russia could hypothetically result in it being cut off from the global internet, which is why the government is making contingency plans, Vladimir Putin said.
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